Wendell Phillips Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Wendell Phillips quotes, Wendell Phillips sayings, and Wendell Phillips proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Wendell Phillips
Revolutions never go backwards. Wendell Phillips
Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm. Wendell Phillips
The heart is the best reflective thinker. Wendell Phillips
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. Wendell Phillips
Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. Wendell Phillips
The heart is the best reflective thinker. Wendell Phillips
Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Wendell Phillips
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Wendell Phillips
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. Wendell Phillips
Nihilism is the righteous and honorable resistance of a people crushed under an iron rule. Wendell Phillips
Nihilism is evidence of life...the last weapons of victims choked and manacled beyond all other resistance. Wendell Phillips
I honor Nihilism since it redeems human nature from the suspicion of being utterly vile, made up of heartless oppressors and contented slaves. Wendell Phillips
I'm a handsome man with a charming personality. Wendell Phillips
After all, the strongest sentiment on this continent is nationality — love of country, glory in the Revolution and Declaration of Independence, reverence for Washington and the founders of our Constitution. Cut an American into a hundred pieces and boil him down, and you will find him all Fourth of July. Wendell Phillips
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one half the nation; but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. Wendell Phillips
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. Wendell Phillips
Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. Wendell Phillips